It's just 46 acres of rock and grass with no fresh water (and no snakes either), but Snake Island in the Black Sea has taken on a totemic significance in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
The isle -- known as Zmiinyi Ostriv in Ukrainian -- lies around 30 miles off the coast of Ukraine and close to the sea lanes leading to the Bosphorus and Mediterranean. Moscow has never laid claim to Snake Island, and it's a long way from any part of the Russian mainland. It's over 180 miles from Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014. In no geographical or historical sense could Russia claim it as their own.
In a series of attacks in the last 10 days its drones and other assets have attacked Russian units trying to consolidate their presence on the island. A satellite view shows smoke rising over Snake Island on May 8, 2022. Satellite imagery from May 12 shows a landing ship submerged close to the island's only quay and Ukraine says it struck two patrol boats nearby as well. At the weekend other imagery showed two columns of smoke rising from the island.
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